Friday, May 27, 2005

star woes

A few reasons why u should catch star wars episode 3.

1. Your English can improve by leaps and bounds just by listening to the yoda master talk. Know grammar does he not? Speak proper English can he not?

2. On their interesting little planet, people have a fetish for keeping little pet robots, who know everything about them, including the father of the baby inside their stomach.

3. These cute little robots are multi-functional, being able to act as part time counselors and help out in fights as well. When their owners sit inside the spaceship having fun, they are outside fighting whatever lands on the spaceship. How helpful, till they got taken as hostage.

4. You must think that all the names u heard before are too clichéd for such an interesting movie, so u have names like count dooku, mace windu, obi-wan. U get the idea.

5. Anakin Skywalker, the supposedly coolest and best jedi, is a classic brawn-without-brains. He is the biggest sucker I’ve ever seen. “ohhh, look at meee. im a weak old man. Help meeeee…” remember?

6. The jedis are supposedly the coolest warriors on the planet, yet they look like dumbasses with their light sabers. Ok they are cool when they fight, just that the light sabers look like something we buy from our neighbourhood mama shop. But hey, I think yoda looks cute with his mini saber. LOL.

7. The love story of Padme and Anakin is oh so cool. I love you, you love me. Let’s get married. Oh no we can’t. But oh no im pregnant. Oooh I have a dream. You are gonna die. But I cannot let u die! So too bad im turning to the dark side. Don’t like it? U bitch im gonna strangle u!!!!! how touching..sobzzz.

8. U learn that the coolest way of wishing people luck is no longer “god bless” but “may the force be with u”. what force, may I ask?

lifehouse-you and me



What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

All of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words
You've got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

There's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you
and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it?
And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive


nice song =)

Monday, May 23, 2005

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is a really great show. It says a lot, yet at the same time leaves a lot for personal discretion. Well, I dunno wad im tokin bout, but den aiya its jus a great show.

Quotable quotes:

John: I need some kind of confirmation from you.

Alicia: for what? Our love? Let me ask u. how big is the universe?

John: infinitely big.

Alicia: how do you know?

John: according to mathematical calculations and estimates…

Alicia: have you ever seen it for yourself?

John: no…

Alicia: can u prove it?

John: no…

Alicia: then how do you know?

John: I just believe.

Alicia: correct. You don’t know for sure. You just believe. It’s the same for love.

Kinda gay for a single fella like me to spout this but hey its quite true isn’t it? Anyway on to more interesting stuffs haha the nash equilibrium and prisoner’s dilemma. I read up on it and was like wow, this guy sure is smart man!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In game theory, the Nash equilibrium (named after John Nash) is a kind of optimal strategy for games involving two or more players, whereby the players reach an outcome to mutual advantage. If there is a set of strategies for a game with the property that no player can benefit by changing his strategy while the other players keep their strategies unchanged, then that set of strategies and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium.

Haha Johnny I read that too! Lol. But in the movie how he explained nash equilibrium was funny.

If we the whole bunch of guys go for the hottest girl among a group of girls, only one of us would succeed. There is also a high probability that she would not choose anyone. Chances are then that the rest of us would choose the alternative, ie. The rest of the gals. But, we would not succeed as no one wants to be regarded as second choice. All of us would then lose out, resulting in a lose-lose situation. But if other than considering personal benefit and choosing the best gal, if everybody could at the same time consider for the benefit of the whole group, and choose the other gals, then everyone would benefit and have a partner. That outcome in which everybody benefits in a similar situation is called the nash equilibrium(if im nort wrong la).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The classical prisoner's dilemma (PD) is as follows:

Two suspects are arrested by the police. The police have insufficient evidence for a conviction, and having separated both prisoners, visit each of them and offer the same deal: if one confesses and the other remains silent, the silent accomplice receives the full 10-year sentence and the confessor goes free. If both stay silent, the police can only give both prisoners 6 months for a minor charge. If both confess, they receive a 2 year sentence each.

Its interesting isn’t it? If u were one of the prisoners, which option would u choose? We often meet with similar situations in our daily lives. Even more interesting is the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. You guys should seriously read it up. The strategies that yield the most successful results are amazing, in the sense that they reflect a lot on humans.

Finally, ending with a quote from the great John Nash in the show:

Classes are a waste of time. They dull the mind.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

some nonsense

Wahaha, got back my 16pf results. Tink its qt accurate la. But honestly I never knew if myself as an artistic person. 9.0 some more. Lyk wahhh. I tink im jus an artistic talent waiting to be discovered.

Haha but the fun part is all the job prospects. I tink my parents would be quite disappointed. They had proud aspirations for their good-for-nothing son, yet it said there that he’s most suitable for stuff like fashion designer? Photographer? Writer? Athletics?(yar rite) artist?(rofl) musician??(lmao) the best reaction came from my dear dad.

Me:daddy, it says here that im suitable for performing arts lei. Haha.

Dad: huh, performing arts? Performing arts all gays one lei. U want to become gay isit??

Wahahaha. I think this test confirms once again that I indeed have gay inclinations. People, please do not be jealous when u see me hooked up with some hot guy in a decade? LOL

On another issue, haha I tink i have just learnt to appreciate the joys of being in a double math class.

On lame jokes…

question : what happens when a complex number throws a pie at another?

Ans: an argument!!

On class outings…

Eh what to eat ah? Ok flip coin flip coin. Aiya cannot coin may be biased. Must flip three times and take de average. (how bout drawing a probability distribution table? haha.)

On lectures…

You reach 3 mins after assembly has ended and the whole lt is already packed, and u realized to your dismay that you have jus missed the first slide of transparency.

On lecture notes…

You copy a whole load of math jargon that looks so remotely foreign to you, and somehow you are expected to understand everything.

On tutorials…

You learn that every single trigo equation at our level can be proven in 3 steps. You are expected to do a 5 marks vector qn in one step a 9 marks stats qn in less than 5 steps.

On faculty mates…

The bulk of them come form china. U learn to ask them whether they’ve eaten in their native dialect. U get freaks who do not need to copy lecture examples, and can summarise a page long proof into 5 lines at a glance. But hey, u get a higher chance of topping gp. Hahaha.

On results…

U realize that anything other than an A for math c is unacceptable, while just try to pass fmath.

After all this, I just wanna say, I dropped fmath!! Good riddance. Lol.

Friday, May 13, 2005

an interesting entry abt my interesting life

Life is getting boring nowadays. As I always tell people, with 3 subs, no (decent) cca, no gal, life is boring. Slack and boring. Nowadays I am gonna haf 3 day weeks. Tues is nonsense. First two periods gp. Den end of de dumb day for me. Like wa lau eh. I end school at 920? When I cant even step out of the penitentiary we call school until 12? Damn stupid la can.

Wednesdays are equally dumb. After we finally finish stats, it would be almost the same as tues, except for the fact that the two gp periods are from 1210-120. -_-

Even eye candies cant be the saving grace in this nonsense timetable. I mean yar eye candies are cute, but as time pass, they’re losing their appeal somehow. And yar things are not as interesting anymore once the whole world, including people u dunno, and maybe even ur eye candy noe who the eye candy is.

I think the library mistresses can recognize me liao. Hahah, weiliang the library vice-chairman was telling me about the diff between the red and white tagged books, and all the color codes and stuff. Haha to me library has only one color that is of interest to me – orange. Lol (guess the color of de couch?) I was suggesting to roy that we should stitch our names on the couches, since we are the most frequent occupants. I think I spend more time on the library couch than on classroom chairs.

I think my agenda for term 2 is match support lo. Whole day go and see them lose only. So sad la. Haha but honestly compared to a certain institution which somehow devoured my alma mater we are not too bad alr.

Okie as u people can alr tell by now, my agenda is kb. Kb kb kb. Sorry ah no choice. Im too bored liao. And yups, suppressed. Cannot post interesting stuff now liao. So sad. Cuz interesting stuff more often than nort are offensive.

Haha. The only reason why im typing this entry is cuz my com is on and I got sick of yahoo pool and I got nth to do and blog looks pathetic and thus I feel compelled to type some nonsense and post it. To those equally boliao who somehow managed to read till here without falling asleep or closing the window and utter vulgarities, haha paisei ah, nth interesting. U all are welcome to slap me. Lol.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

QUE SERA SERA

When I was just a little girl

I asked my mother, what will I be

Will I be pretty, will I be rich

Here's what she said to me.



Que Sera, Sera,

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be.



When I was young, I fell in love

I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead

Will we have rainbows, day after day

Here's what my sweetheart said.



Que Sera, Sera,

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be.



Now I have children of my own

They ask their mother, what will I be

Will I be handsome, will I be rich

I tell them tenderly.



Que Sera, Sera,

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be.

Monday, May 02, 2005

little froggie story

Jus heard this little anecdote on radio.

Two little frogs were at the bottom of a tall pagoda, staring up at the endless flight of steps. They decided to compete and see who managed to reach the top of the pagoda first. So they started jumping, and jumping, and jumping…

Around them, people were muttering, these little frogs are mad. How could they, so minute in size, conquer a structure so immense? It was impossible, they declared. The two little frogs should really not waste their time and energy.

One of the little frogs wavered. He started to feel the ache in his little legs, and the fatigue of the marathon jump overcoming him. Suddenly, it dawned on him that he would never be able to reach the top. Hence, he gave up.

However, the other frog persisted, and continued jumping, and jumping, and jumping with frogged determination. And yes yes, like all fairy tales, he finally reached the top.

Why was he able to reach the top, while the other frog failed?

For the simple reason that he was deaf.

An interesting anecdote, no doubt, that leaves room for inference. Which frog are u?